Teaching Point: Readers can ask and answer literal and inferential questions to determine meaning
and refer to the text to support inferences.
I think Stinky’s plan is to make a bumper sticker about Pluto being
a planet because he wants to prove Pluto is a planet, and he got
the idea then pulled out his bumper sticker making kit. I wonder
whose car he will put it on. I think he might get caught because
that would be funny, and this is a funny story.
Teaching Point: Readers can use their knowledge of the CVCe pattern to read and spell unfamiliar
words.
Teaching Point: Readers can identify and use
spatial and temporal words and phrases to
understand the relationship of content words.
Notice in the first sentence the
phrase, “seventh planet from the
sun” tells where Uranus is in
relation to the sun. (a spatial
relationship is given)
Notice in the next to the last
sentence, “…the first to be
identified in modern times.” (a
temporal or time relationship is
given)